diff --git a/whitespacecleanup.sh b/whitespacecleanup.sh
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+#!/bin/bash -x
+
+# Enforce some consistency in whitespace - just to avoid spurious whitespaces changes
+
+files=`hg loc '*.py' '*.html' '*.css' '*.rst' '*.txt' '*.js' | egrep -v '/lockfiles.py|LICENSE-MERGELY.html|/codemirror/|/fontello/|(graph|mergely|native.history|select2/select2|yui.flot)\.js$'`
+sed -i "s,`printf '\t'`,    ,g" $files
+sed -i "s,  *$,,g" $files
+
+sed -i 's,\([^ /]\){,\1 {,g' `hg loc '*.css'`
+sed -i 's|^\([^ /].*,\)\([^ ]\)|\1 \2|g' `hg loc '*.css'`
+
+sed -i 's/^\(    [^: ]*\) *: *\([^/]\)/\1: \2/g' kallithea/public/css/{style,contextbar}.css
+sed -i '1s|, |,|g' kallithea/public/css/{style,contextbar}.css
+sed -i 's/^\([^ ,/]\+ [^,]*[^ ,]\) *, *\(.\)/\1,\n\2/g' kallithea/public/css/{style,contextbar}.css
+sed -i 's/^\([^ ,/].*\)   */\1 /g' kallithea/public/css/{style,contextbar}.css
+sed -i 's,^--$,-- ,g' kallithea/templates/email_templates/main.txt
+
+hg diff